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YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 940 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM
YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883) , Scottish industrial chemist, was born in Glasgow on the 13th of July 1811. During his apprenticeship to his father, a carpenter, he attended evening classes at Anderson's College, where he had Lyon Playf air and David Livingstone for fellow-pupils; and the ability he showed was such that Thomas Graham, the professor of chemistry, chose him as lecture assistant in 1832. About 1839, on the recommendation of Graham, whom in 1837 he had accompanied to University College, London, he was appointed chemist at James Muspratt's alkali works in Lancashire; in connexion with alkali he showed that cast-iron vessels could be satisfactorily substituted for silver in the manufacture of caustic soda, and worked out improvements in the production of chlorate of potash. But his name is best known in connexion with the
establishment
  of the Scottish
mineral
 -oil industry. In 1847 Lyon Playfair informed him of a
spring
  of petroleum which had made its appearance at
Ridding
 's Colliery at
Alfreton
  in Derbyshire, and in the following year he began to utilize it for making both burning and lubricating oils. This
spring
  was practically exhausted by 1851. It had served to draw
Young
 's attention to the question of oil-production, and in 1850 he took out his fundamental patent for the distillation of bituminous substances. This was soon put into operation in Scotland, first with the Boghead coal or Torbanehill
mineral
 , and later with bituminous shales, and though he had to face much litigation
Young
  successfully employed it in the manufacture of naphtha and lubricating oils, and subsequently of illuminating oils and paraffin wax, until in 1866, after the patent had expired, he transferred his works to a limited company. In 1872 he suggested the use of caustic lime to prevent the corrosion of iron ships by the bilge water, which he noticed was acid, and in 1878 he began a determination of the velocity of white and coloured light by a modification of H. L. Fizeau's method, in collaboration with Professor George Forbes (b. 1849), at Pitlochry. The final results were obtained in 188o-81 across th'e Firth of
Clyde
  from Kelly, his
house
  at Wemyss Bay, and a hill above Inellan, and gave values rather higher than those obtained by M. A. Cornu and A. A. Michelson. Young was a liberal supporter of David Livingstone, and also gave 10,500 to endow a chair of technical chemistry at Anderson's College. He died at Wemyss Bay on the 14th of May 1883.


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